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40 free Roller Girl trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson's award-winning graphic novel, follows twelve-year-old Astrid through one bruising summer of roller derby camp. It is a story about falling down, getting back up, and working out what to do when a best friend starts to drift away. This quiz covers the whole book: the characters Astrid meets on and off the track, the fibs and apologies that drive the plot, the drills and positions she has to learn, and the pun-filled skater names. A handful of questions look at the real sport and at the author, who skated herself. It suits students getting ready for a book quiz, teachers and book club leaders who want ready-made questions with explanations, and anyone who loved the story and wants to see how much of it stuck.
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Q 01Which lifelong best friend does Astrid expect to join her at roller derby camp in Roller Girl?
Nicole
Nicole picks a different camp instead, opening the first real rift the two friends have ever known.
Q 02Which star skater becomes Astrid's idol on her first night watching roller derby in Roller Girl?
Rainbow Bite
Rainbow Bite later turns the tables, telling Astrid that she is a hero too for taking hits for her team.
Q 03What colour does a derby camp friend dye Astrid's hair partway through the summer in Roller Girl?
Blue
Blue is only on loan, though: Astrid is allowed to keep the colour until the end of summer and no longer.
Q 04Which Pacific Northwest city, where Victoria Jamieson moved in 2009, is the setting of Roller Girl?
Portland
Portland shows up in familiar bridges and street scenes, and a few of the city's real derby athletes appear in the pages too.
Q 05Which space-themed derby name does the twelve-year-old heroine skate under in Roller Girl?
Asteroid
Asteroid is a play on her own first name, in a sport where skaters compete under pun-filled aliases.
Q 06Which runner-up prize for American children's books did Roller Girl earn in 2016?
Newbery Honor
Newbery Honor status went to three books that year, while the medal itself went to a picture book.
Q 07In Roller Girl, what does Astrid's best friend choose to study instead of joining roller derby camp?
Ballet
Ballet camp also means spending the summer with a girl Astrid cannot stand, which makes the split hurt even more.
Q 08Which storybook-inspired derby name did Roller Girl author Victoria Jamieson skate under?
Winnie the Pow
Winnie the Pow beat her runner-up idea, Encyclopedia Frown, because she wanted a name linked to children's books.
Q 09Which scoring position does Astrid chase in Roller Girl, only to see a friend picked for it instead?
Jammer
Jammer is the one skater on each team who can score, earning a point for every opposing blocker she laps.
Q 10Roller Girl draws one of Astrid's clothes-shopping trips as a whole-page visit to which grim place?
Hell
Hell gets a lurid full-page panel, one of the flights of fantasy that show just how frustrated Astrid feels.
Q 11Which new friend, one of the few campers her own age, does Astrid make at derby camp in Roller Girl?
Zoey
Zoey meets Astrid while both are collecting rental gear, and the two pair up for most of the drills that follow.
Q 12Which longtime rival of Astrid becomes her best friend's new sidekick in Roller Girl?
Rachel
Rachel openly bullies Astrid whenever they meet, yet she shares the interests Astrid's oldest friend now cares about.
Q 13What grand name does Astrid's mother give the outings that lead to roller derby in Roller Girl?
Evenings of Cultural Enlightenment
Evenings of Cultural Enlightenment usually mean places the girls find boring, which is why the derby night comes as such a shock.
Q 21Which fierce skater, eager to tear down any rival, does Astrid meet at derby camp in Roller Girl?
Braidy Punch
Braidy Punch is the skater Astrid ends up facing in her first bout, and the alias is one of the book's many puns.
Q 22What does a furious Astrid throw, splashing two other girls, in Roller Girl?
A soda
A soda goes flying in one of the failures that Astrid, who narrates the book herself, owns up to with real candour.
Q 23Which Roller Girl drill has each skater weave up a line of teammates showing her fiercest look?
Warface
Warface starts badly for Astrid, who giggles her way up the line until her coach demands to see more fire.
Q 14Which coach with a playground-game pun for a name greets Astrid at derby camp in Roller Girl?
Heidi Go Seek
Heidi Go Seek is the coach who pushes Astrid to keep trying when she wants to give up after one wobbly lap.
Q 15Roller Girl follows Astrid through the last summer before she starts which new stage of school?
Junior high
Junior high looms over the whole story, and by the end Astrid decides she is strong enough to face it.
Q 16What lie does Astrid tell her mother when roller derby camp begins in Roller Girl?
Her best friend is going too
Her best friend is going too, she claims, so Astrid ends up walking home in the heat rather than admit there is no ride.
Q 17Where does Astrid's mother run into another mom and finally learn the truth in Roller Girl?
Grocery store
Grocery store small talk undoes weeks of fibbing, but an honest conversation between mother and daughter follows.
Q 18Which real derby league, the one Victoria Jamieson joined herself, does Astrid watch in Roller Girl?
Rose City Rollers
Rose City Rollers skaters gained the author as soon as she moved west: joining was her first priority after finding an apartment.
Q 19What does Astrid's oldest friend hand her after watching the big bout at the end of Roller Girl?
Flowers
Flowers come with a dinner invitation, which Astrid politely turns down so she can stay with her team.
Q 20What peace offering does Astrid give her old best friend and her rival late in Roller Girl?
A ticket to her bout
A ticket to her bout is how Astrid calls a truce, after she has already gone to her friend's house to say sorry.
Q 24How does Astrid secretly ask her roller derby hero for advice in Roller Girl?
Notes left at her locker
Notes left at her locker win replies full of encouragement, which give Astrid fresh hope just as she is ready to quit.
Q 25Where does Astrid land unhurt after losing control on a downhill outdoor skate in Roller Girl?
In a bush
In a bush, and without injury, because she remembers the lesson about falling small; she comes away proud of herself.
Q 26After the truth comes out in Roller Girl, where must Astrid go with her mother every day after camp?
The library
The library is her only real consequence, and Astrid uses the hours there to reflect on the kind of friend she has been.
Q 27Which made-up word does Astrid use in Roller Girl for her mixed feelings about an old friendship?
Shad
Shad sums up what Astrid notices that summer: feelings are getting complicated, and she can hold more than one at a time.
Q 28Which skating skill still troubles Astrid in Roller Girl after her hitting and falling improve?
Stopping
Stopping stays her weak spot, yet she grows more confident each day and starts skating home after practice.
Q 29Roller Girl's publisher pitches it to fans of Smile, the dental-drama memoir by which cartoonist?
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier's Smile follows her own years of dental procedures and struggles to fit in, from sixth grade to high school.
Q 30Which Drew Barrymore film came from the novel that first introduced Victoria Jamieson to roller derby?
Whip It
Whip It, Barrymore's first film as director, was adapted by Shauna Cross from her own 2007 novel Derby Girl.